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Louis XIV: The Golden Cage of Versailles

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Louis XIV: The Golden Cage of Versailles
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Louis XIV, who determined the fate of the most populous, richest, and most powerful state in Europe, consistently ranks alongside Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle among the top three leaders in the French Pantheon of national memory, sharing with them one of the most controversial heroes in French history. His reign lasted seventy-two years, and his personal rule after the death of Cardinal Mazarin lasted fifty-four years. It has gone down in history as the Golden Age, the Age of Louis XIV, or even the Grande Époque, and he himself as the Sun King and Louis XIV the Great. He succeeded in spreading the exceptional influence of French culture and civilization throughout Europe, and his crowning achievement was Versailles—the heart of France, a symbol of the grandeur of royal power and human genius. There, the king lived on public display, like a man behind a bell jar, accessible to the gaze of all his subjects. But Versailles is also a warning: one day, the palace could become a cage, albeit a gilded one.
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